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From: Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:30:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070406143019.GQ26707@cel.leo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404080140.GC8256@elf.ucw.cz>

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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:01:40AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> You could do that... during development series. But this is
> userspace-visible API change, and those are not allowed during stable.
> 
> ...and having /sysctl configuring inital state for reset is just plain
> ugly.

Well, how else would you suggest to do it? Bearing in mind all other
terminal emulators (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, and so on) all have
other out-of-band ways to determine this - config files, menu options,
locale variables,... None of those are particularlly viable for the
kernel. I vote this is the closest thing we've got.

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

leonerd@leonerd.org.uk
ICQ# 4135350       |  Registered Linux# 179460
http://www.leonerd.org.uk/

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-06 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03  1:24 [PATCH] vt: Expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-03  4:06 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-04-03  5:47   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-03 16:20 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-03 16:35   ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-04  5:39     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-04  8:01       ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-06 14:30         ` Paul LeoNerd Evans [this message]
2007-04-06 15:39         ` H. Peter Anvin

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